Case continued for Mahopac teen charged in shooting incident

11:31 AM,
Mar. 1, 2013

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The criminal case against a 19-year-old Mahopac man who was found with several weapons in his home after firing shots at a shed in his backyard was continued this week in Carmel Town Court at the request of his Legal Aid attorney.

Thomas Margotta, of 24 Spring Brook Drive has been held at the Putnam County jail in lieu of $250,000 cash bail or $500,000 bond since Jan. 3, when Carmel police responded to his neighborhood on a report of shots fired.

Police determined that Margotta had fired several rounds from a shotgun toward a shed on his property. Some of the rounds passed through the shed in the ...